Teacher2RN

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1. Who's Ready for Graduation?

   Teacher2RN replied to graceomalleyRN's topic in General Students

   Me! Me! Me! Pinning and graduation are both May 8th! Honor status is already established so all I really need is a C in my Psych Nursing class and I'm good to go!

2. NG Tube feeding, I am confused?

   Teacher2RN replied to Mell Bell's topic in General Students

   Because you are also checking to see how much residual is in the stomach and if you need to hold the feeding because of too much residual.

3. Ideas for a clinical "cheat sheet" ?

   Teacher2RN replied to AOx1's topic in General Students

   That's a nice resource you've created for your students! I made my own as a student by buying a spiral bound set of 4x6 notecards and wrote out everything myself that I thought was important as we learned about it or post conferenced about it in cli...

4. Professions before nursing

   Teacher2RN replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

   I worked in food service in High School and did more food service as well as retail work through college while I earned a degree in teaching. I worked as a teacher for 6 years and every year got worse. While I took pre-reqs I worked as a bank teller...

5. Nursing School Vent-Inconsiderate Classmates and Flighty instructor

   Teacher2RN replied to Teacher2RN's topic in General Students

   This has gone on all semester. We're in one of those weird 16 week classes when up until now every class has been 8-10 weeks. I'm seriously just sick and tired of being with the same people all the time when last year things were changed up every so...

6. Nursing School Vent-Inconsiderate Classmates and Flighty instructor

   Teacher2RN posted a topic in General Students

   I just sat through a 3 hour lecture that really got on my last nerves. For one thing, the instructor started incredibly late, as usual and most of these problems are due to the instructors classroom management, but here we go. It was 3 hours of cli...

7. I really do not like going to work as a CNA everyday...what do I do?

   Teacher2RN replied to Duice88's topic in CNA/MA

   I'm right there with you. I HATE working as a CNA. I love my residents, but just like you, I hate where I work. I keep going because I need the paycheck and I know it's just a temporary stop on the way toward something better. I hate feeling grimy...

8. In what department do you not wipe the backside?

   Teacher2RN replied to mirgadia05's topic in General Nursing

   let's see. I have a bachelor's degree in education. I left that job to pursue nursing and to help my husband pay the bills, I've taken a job as a CNA until I graduate from my ASN program. I don't consider myself too smart to wipe butts. In clinicals...

9. Help, Diagnosing Acid-Base Imbalance.

   Teacher2RN replied to brittany_micah's topic in General Students

   yup, don't worry about it yet. You will cover it in med surg. I'll dig through my stuff and find a website that my instructor provided us that gave a really good explanation for interpreting ABG's and post it later. It's good info and you can print i...

10. Am I the Only One Who Didn't Read This Summer?

    Teacher2RN replied to anewday's topic in General Students

    That would do me no good. We skip around so much in the book it would be a complete waste of time to read ahead. We don't get the syllabus until the first day of classes, which is clinical orientation. We can start reading ahead then for the lecture ...

11. Need some help deciding what classes to take and when for the ASN program at Ivy Tech

    Teacher2RN replied to Nina2bRN's topic in General Nursing

    i'm cutting it kind of close paying for classes using minimum loans. before you go back to school, make sure you have some money set aside in savings to cover any unforseen costs. you may have to commute to clinical sites, so save up some gas money. ...

12. Need some help deciding what classes to take and when for the ASN program at Ivy Tech

    Teacher2RN replied to Nina2bRN's topic in General Nursing

    You shouldn't make too much money to qualify for loans. Our combined income both years I applied for financial aid was around 45K. I'm taking out a total of $10,500 (or $1,750 per semester) to do the ASN program. That includes my year of pre-reqs and...

13. Need some help deciding what classes to take and when for the ASN program at Ivy Tech

    Teacher2RN replied to Nina2bRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm currently at Ivy Tech in Richmond. I'm in the second semester of the RN program and only have one gen ed class left to take. I'm actually finding that just taking the nursing classes alone leaves plenty of time to take 1 gen ed class each semese...

14. Just need a chance to celebrate!

    Teacher2RN posted a topic in General Students

    Since we're pretty much on thanksgiving break and I won't see classmates for a week I wanted to brag to someone who understands. I finally got a 100 on a med surg test!!!! I'm so excited! My first two tests were kind of shaky and I never thought I'd...

15. I feel like Harry Potter

    Teacher2RN posted a topic in General Students

    HI, I'm new here, but I've been reading a lot lately. I just got accepted at Ivy Tech in Richmond, IND to the RN program. I've been reading about all the new students getting their lists for uniforms, books, and other materials, and it reminds me of ...